>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> We do this in Flycheck, but it makes retrieving the version number
>> less conveni.k,. Lololol Ll..k..
ent. Maybe p.j ackage.el could provide a simple function
>> which, given a package name, returns the installed version?
Stefan> Yes, it'd be nice.
>> (Maybe there's one already?)
Stefan> The closest I could find are: (lm-header "version") and `bbdb-version`.
lm-header is what package.el itself uses.
I suspect this could be done by using a combination of the
load-file-name hack; see the end of:
(info "(elisp) Multi-file Packages")
combined with lm-header. To make it even better maybe this could be
done using eval-when-compile so that the bytecode just has a constant.
Tom